In Hesiod’s Works and Days, Athena clothes Pandora. The poem describes the gods preparing Pandora after Zeus orders her creation as part of his punishment of humanity.
Athena, the Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and crafts, is especially suited to the task of making clothing. Hesiod describes her teaching or performing textile-related work as she equips Pandora with a decorated garment. Other gods contribute different attributes, including beauty, persuasion, and speech.
This detail is often compressed in modern retellings, which simply say that “the gods” created Pandora. Hesiod’s account is more specific: the creation is a collaborative divine project, with named deities supplying separate gifts. The clothing also helps present Pandora as a carefully fashioned figure rather than an ordinary human woman.
The story appears in Works and Days, where Pandora’s creation follows Prometheus’s theft of fire. The poem links her arrival to the introduction of suffering and difficult labor into human life.